Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
AGNES REPPLIERThe delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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